GNU bug report logs - #4708
23.1; completion-try-completion adds an extra $: $$HOMj

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:10:06 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #50 received at 4708-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Subject: Re: bug#4708: 23.1; completion-try-completion adds an extra $:  $$HOMj
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:02:18 -0400

>> That try-completion will return nil when applied to "/foo/bar/$$HOMj",
>> so basically the $HOMj -> $$HOMj is considered to be a form 
>> of completion.
> Sorry, I don't follow that.

Just what I said: read-file-name-internal considered that changing
"$HOMj" into "$$HOMj" is a form of completion.  Just like hitting TAB
might change Foo into FOO in some completion cases.

> And did you mean try-completion or completion-try-completion?

Makes no difference, it's done in the completion-table, i.e. at
a lower level.


        Stefan
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